CGAP
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), is a consortium of 28 public and private development agencies working together to expand access to financial services for the poor, referred to as microfinance

CRS
The official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community

MicroSave
MicroSave is a unique project that promotes the development of savings and other more client-responsive financial services among microfinance institutions

ShoreBank
ShoreBank focuses its services on improving the economic equity of the neighborhoods it serves, while at the same time addressing the individual financial concerns of consumers, businesses and religious and community organizations

Save the Children
Save the Children is a leading nonprofit humanitarian relief and development organization working in more than 40 countries throughout the developing world and the United States

SEEP
The SEEP Network is an organization of more than 50 North American private and voluntary organizations that support micro and small business and microfinance institutions in the developing world

SEEP PLP
The Practitioner Learning Program (PLP) explores key challenges facing the microenterprise field

The MIX Market
The MIX Market strives to facilitate exchange and investments flows, promote transparency and improve reporting standards in the microfinance industry

USAID
The United States Agency for International Development supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance

MFN
The MicroFinance Network (MFN) was founded in April 1993 by participants at the Micro Enterprise Conference organized by BancoSol in Bolivia. The objective of the Network is to support self-sufficient microfinance institutions in order to provide microfinance services on an unprecedented scale and to expand the horizons of the microfinance industry. Currently, the MFN includes 38 members representing different regions of the world.

AVO
The Armenia Village Operation (AVO) was established as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Armenia in 2005. AVO’s mission and the overall vision is to develop a strategy to contribute to the livelihood of the civil society in the most rural and vulnerable areas of Armenia. The mission is being fulfilled by: community development, income and employment generation, solidarity group micro lending to accomplish self sustainability. AVO is currently under the auspices of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America.